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The Brave Table with Dr. Neeta Bhushan

Dr. Neeta Bhushanthebravetable.com
Grab a seat at The Brave Table for unfiltered conversations about all the unpredictable moments we face on our journey through life—the raw, the real, the messy—and how to overcome them and thrive. This is your oasis for the next season of who you are becoming—where you defeat your imposter syndrome, ditch comparing your life to others, embrace the unconventional, and recognize your evolution and expansion. Join host Dr. Neeta Bhushan, a former dentist turned author, serial entrepreneur, and mama of two, for weekly episodes on strengthening your mental health and emotional fitness so you can face challenges with grace and grit. Let’s get brave as we navigate this human experience together with lots of love, new perspectives, and a dose of laughter along the way.
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Episodes

18. How To Be More Of Yourself with Vasavi Kumar

Welcome back to The Brave Table! Question for you—do you ever feel not like yourself? I don’t just mean feeling off your game or in a funky mood—I’m talking about a deep, to-your-core, soul-level feeling of not being the real you. Who are you when you’re not the person your parents expect you to be? Who are you when you’re not in a relationship with a partner who has certain projections of you? How do you know what lights you up if you aren’t always trying new things, exploring, and giving yours...

Mar 30, 202248 min

17. How to Be Bold In The Face Of Haters and Cancel Culture with Miki Agrawal

Hey Brave Table fam, welcome back—you’re in for a goodie today! In this chat with Miki Agrawal, the ultimate girl boss queen, we go all in—touching on everything from infertility and motherhood; to deep healing and inner work; to navigating big challenges that may come up as an entrepreneur in your journey. Miki is the founder of Tushy, Thinx, and Wild. All of these companies have been disrupted by who she is and what she stands for. She is also the author of the #1 best-selling books Do Cool Sh...

Mar 28, 20221 hr 7 min

16. What You Didn't Learn About Sex In School with Alexa Bowditch (Part 2/2)

Hi again, loves, and welcome back for part two of my conversation with @thatsexchick, Alexa Bowditch. We're going to dive even deeper into our discussion on sex — and what we really should know about it related to our pleasure, health, and relationships — not just the basics we learned in school. I'm sure many of you mamas out there will agree when I say — it's scary thinking about what our children will find out about sex before we get to them. We all want our children to know how to properly a...

Mar 23, 202253 min

15. Being Brave In Talking About Sex with Alexa Bowditch (Part 1/2)

Welcome back, Brave Table squad - I hope you’re ready because today’s episode is an EXTRA spicy one. We’re going to talk about the one topic many of us avoid or feel uncomfortable with - sex - with @thatsexchick, Alexa Bowditch. Before Alexa became a sex coach and business mentor, she grew up in the deep south of Louisiana in a Catholic household, trying to follow all the “rules” in order to live out the so-called American Dream - like getting married young, having kids, and a house with a white...

Mar 21, 202248 min

14. How To Know If You Are Ready To Pursue Your Purpose & Change Your Life with Dr. Neeta Bhushan

Hey Brave Table fam, I have a question for you: have you ever asked yourself if you’re truly pursuing your life purpose? This episode is for anyone who might be going through a life crisis right now or a pivotal shift. Maybe you’ve ended a relationship, just left your job, experienced a loss — whatever it is, you’re going through an initiation or awakening of some kind, and you know you need to make a change. There are a few different ways you can approach it. You could ignore it and hope things...

Mar 16, 202222 min

13. How to Build Unconventional Financial Wealth & Abundance with Codie Sanchez

Hey Brave Table crew - welcome back for another episode. Today I’m sitting down with one of my dear friends and the founder of Contrarian Thinking, Codie Sanchez. We’re going to dive into financial freedom, creating abundance, and building wealth through avenues you might have never even thought of. Codie and I met during a weekend event and formed a sister bond immediately. We both shared the experience of having lived a super traditional life and longing for something more — something aligned ...

Mar 14, 202247 min

12. Healing Generational Trauma & Breaking Free From Asian Immigrant Parents with Dr. Neeta Bhushan

Hey loves, and welcome back for another episode of The Brave Table. This one is all about family trauma and why it’s important to heal generational wounds. If you’re from an immigrant family, you’ll probably already know what I’m talking about, or maybe you’re in a relationship with someone who is. But no matter what your background or culture, it’s likely that you have some generational trauma in your lineage. When I talk about trauma, it doesn’t always mean something huge and scary — it’s some...

Mar 09, 202258 min

11. Being Brave In Building Your LifePass and How to Find Your True Calling with Payal Kadakia

Welcome back loves for another juicy conversation at The Brave Table. My guest in this episode is Payal Kadakia, Founder of ClassPass, Artist, and Author of LifePass . Payal believes that your life purpose lies at the intersection of what you’re innately passionate about and what can impact others. At a young age, she was lucky enough to find her purpose — Indian dance — and used this as her North Star to guide how she would operate in this world. As a result, Payal has paved the way for what’s ...

Mar 07, 202235 min

10. Awakening Your Inner Wisdom As The Rock-Star Shaman with Alyson Charles

Hey there Brave Table squad! Welcome back for another super juicy episode, this time with the Rock-Star Shaman (and my rockstar friend), Alyson Charles. Internationally renowned Shaman, best-selling author, and host of Ceremony Circle Podcast, Alyson’s story starts with a traumatic experience followed by a spiritual awakening that shifted her out of her life as a national champion athlete, top-rated radio host, and national daytime television talk show host in New York City, and into her calling...

Mar 02, 20221 hr 4 min

9. On Being Enough & Healing Childhood Wounds with Marisa Peer

Hello, loves! This is a BIG episode as I sit down to chat with a woman I’ve admired for a long time, Marisa Peer. Marisa is a globally acclaimed therapist, author, speaker, and founder of Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT), an award-winning technique that combines NLP, CBT, psychotherapy, and hypnotherapy for compelling results. So much so, that she’s taught it as a self-coaching tool to shift your life rapidly! Marisa Peer has been the guide for me in motherhood and the person who jump-starte...

Feb 28, 20221 hr 1 min

8. How to Create Routines & Morning Rituals That Work For You with Dr. Neeta Bhushan

Hey fam! Welcome to another episode of The Brave Table. In today’s episode, I’m pulling back the curtain to give you a behind the scenes look at a day in the life of a mamapreneur with 2 kids (both under 3 years old, eeeek). So many people often ask me - how do you do it all? And even though a lot of my life is online, what actually goes on in my home is something I usually keep pretty private. Well, not anymore, my loves! I’m going practice the bravery I preach and invite you in to all the mess...

Feb 23, 202228 min

7. Pursuing Your Dharma To Be Your Highest Self with Sahara Rose

Hey Brave Table soul fam! I’m SUPER excited for you to tune in to this episode as I sit down with my dear friend, sister, Goddess, and co-founder of Dharma Coaching Institute, Sahara Rose. Sahara is the best-selling author of Discover your Dharma: A Vedic Guide to Finding Your Purpose, the host of the Highest Self Podcast - the #1 spirituality podcast on iTunes - and has been proclaimed by THE Deepak Chopra as a “leading voice of the millennial generation into the new paradigm”. My girl has devo...

Feb 21, 202252 min

6. On Parenthood And Being A Father with Ajit Nawalkha (Part 2/2)

Hi loves! This is the second part of my conversation with my husband Ajit on moving into a new chapter of our lives as parents to Arie and Aiyla and how our children are our greatest teachers. We talk about the challenges of parenting during a move, a pandemic, and validating children's feelings. With the birth of Aiyla and this being our second rodeo in the parenthood game, I ask Ajit how having a daughter has heightened his warrior-protector mode and if there’s one message he’d want our childr...

Feb 14, 202235 min

5. Talking About Difficult Transitions with My Husband, Ajit Nawalkha (Part 1/2)

Hey team Brave Table! This week’s episode is a super fun one! I sat down with my boo, my baby daddy, my husband, and - also - serial entrepreneur, author, and coach, Ajit Nawalkha. This is part 1 of a 2-part episode! People often ask how we keep our relationship fun, juicy and fresh since we’re together so often as business partners, life partners, and now our most important roles of mom and dad. We’ll touch on a few of our tricks for clearly defining the different roles we play and placing and ...

Feb 14, 202236 min

4. What It Means To Be Brave with Dr. Neeta Bhushan

Hey Brave Table squad, I have a question for you: what does it really mean to be brave? For this episode, I’m going all-in on what I think it means and why I decided to start a podcast about the topic. Being locked down during the pandemic created opportunities to get cozy with my quaranteam and have amazing discussions about the human experience. Around the world, people were finding new ways to connect, and it was incredible to see - but I started wondering why people weren’t going deeper with...

Feb 14, 202230 min

3. Calling In Your Desires, And Owning It with Dr. Neeta Bhushan

Fam, you’ve been saying how you’ve been feeling run down from the past two years and I HEAR YOU. But I also want to name all the beauty in what we’ve learned about the world and ourselves during this time. This type of change can be scary, but it also invites in so much abundance and opportunity for self-development. I was on a call with some power entrepreneurs recently and was loving all the vulnerability I was feeling from those around me. We often show up at these events as bosses ready to s...

Feb 14, 202231 min

2. How to Have Grit & Grace In Surrendering To Life Moments with Dr. Neeta Bhushan

Okay there Brave Table fam - as a recovering perfectionist, I'm going to dive into some triggers today and how to give yourself permission to shift when necessary. Sometimes we tend to hold ourselves back if things aren’t quite ready and in this episode, I’ll share my very big initiation into my motherhood journey that taught me to fully surrender - what I learned from my birth experience leading up to it with my son, the differences with my daughter, and how you can take the steps needed to hea...

Feb 14, 202246 min

1. Being Brave in Reinventing Yourself with Dr. Neeta Bhushan

Welcome officially to your seat at The Brave Table. I’m SO glad you are here! This is your destination, and I feel like it’s going to be a magical journey together, my friend, so again, thank you SO much for tuning in! This has been brewing for a while! In this very first episode, I take you on a journey into my own life, about why I started this podcast and how The Brave Table came to be. We will explore topics like why it’s SO vital to practice radical self-acceptance, because there have been ...

Feb 14, 202237 min

Welcome To The Brave Table (Trailer)

Grab a seat at The Brave Table for unfiltered conversations about all the unpredictable moments we face on our journey through life—the raw, the real, the messy—and how to overcome them and thrive. This is your oasis for the next season of who you are becoming—where you conquer your fears, ditch comparing your life to others, embrace the unconventional, and recognize your evolution and expansion. Join host Dr. Neeta, a former dentist turned author, investor, serial entrepreneur, and mama of two,...

Feb 01, 20228 min
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